Prescription drug interaction caused stroke.
While recovering and down decently fell down cement stairs in Manhattan. I remember thinking as I started to fall “this is gonna be real bad” lol.
My bones are hard as rock but jarring the head and hitting it (though my body landed first) made the stroke symptoms worse and some permanent. And added new issues.
Was home for five years because the dizziness wouldn’t go away.
The insomnia (because the sleep area of brain was damaged) would last up to 50 or more hours.
night terrors, vivid dreams. not PTSD. head injury. you brain kinds of goes crazy trying to fix itself while you are sleeping and some pretty crazy stuff happens.
for about six months i would wake up every ten minutes alot, never sleeping more than 30 or 40 at a time.
the pain was so bad, i had (God forgive me)plans of how to end it if i couldn’t take it anymore. didn’t know the head could hurt that much.
Pulsatile tinnitus and deafness in right ear. I will hear my heartbeat in my ear until it stops lol.
there’s more and worse :)
but i can walk and talk and sleep FIVE hours in a row. some personal problems that were affected have gotten better and life goes on.
It’s the new me. You live with it or you die slowly.
After YEARS of hatred toward the doctor that gave me the pills, a prayed to let it go and I did.
It is what it is.
Ouch! Serious fall you had there. I was rolled between two pickups. My C5 slipped just short of total paralysis. Young adult, somewhat malleable. Glad you’re here. Toss up between cement stairs and getting clipped ;)
I too got tinnitus, but no doubt from Hammerheads.. God bless, FRiend.
Congrats on your amazing resilience and recovery!
Sorry you had so suffer so much.